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In today’s complex digital world, retailers and manufacturers are challenged with vanishing boundaries, shrinking time lines, razor thin margins, ever changing environments and an exponential growth of rich product data that needs to be managed across vendors and multiple channels.

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Written by Steve Thompson

Over the past several months I have personally had the opportunity to speak with the key players of some of the most widely recognized leaders in e-Commerce. This list includes Amazon, WalMart, Home Depot, CDW, and Staples, among others.

When it comes to managing product data and attributes there is one common goal that is held by all. To push responsibility for the management of product data out to the suppliers as effectively and as quickly as possible.

Why?

Simple. Cost savings, better first time data quality, and improved time to market.

The approaches to meeting this goal vary. More than one of these companies has spent several years and millions of dollars to develop in-house solutions. One of these companies took two years and $7m just to build a solution to handle NEW SKU’s ONLY!

Why?

Simple again. Because there was no solution in the market that could effectively meet the need. Virtually every solution available was and is built upon a document-centric approach that leaves gaping holes between systems. These companies saw the value of spending the dollars and taking the time to build a data-centric approach to managing vendors, products and their attributes.

SKUforce takes advantage of the ongoing development of these types of platforms to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership and time to deploy a solution.

One way to view this is to compare it to how telephony has evolved in China. The Chinese did not go out and build a land line telephony infrastructure when the availability of wireless technology was better and already available. They knew they would get to their goal faster and less expensively (and be better positioned for the future) by blowing past the old technology and moving directly to the the most current solution out there.

That’s the direction your company should also be taking for product data. SKUforce makes this technology available to a much broader market than ever before. We offer solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional implementations and can get you up in running in a measure of weeks not months or years.

SKUforce Philosophy Verified By The Best In e-Comm

Written by Steve Thompson

Over the past several months I have personally had the opportunity to speak with the key players of some of the most widely recognized leaders in e-Commerce. This list includes Amazon, WalMart, Home Depot, CDW, and Staples, among others.

When it comes to managing product data and attributes there is one common goal that is held by all. To push responsibility for the management of product data out to the suppliers as effectively and as quickly as possible.

Why?

Simple. Cost savings, better first time data quality, and improved time to market.

The approaches to meeting this goal vary. More than one of these companies has spent several years and millions of dollars to develop in-house solutions. One of these companies took two years and $7m just to build a solution to handle NEW SKU’s ONLY!

Why?

Simple again. Because there was no solution in the market that could effectively meet the need. Virtually every solution available was and is built upon a document-centric approach that leaves gaping holes between systems. These companies saw the value of spending the dollars and taking the time to build a data-centric approach to managing vendors, products and their attributes.

SKUforce takes advantage of the ongoing development of these types of platforms to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership and time to deploy a solution.

One way to view this is to compare it to how telephony has evolved in China. The Chinese did not go out and build a land line telephony infrastructure when the availability of wireless technology was better and already available. They knew they would get to their goal faster and less expensively (and be better positioned for the future) by blowing past the old technology and moving directly to the the most current solution out there.

That’s the direction your company should also be taking for product data. SKUforce makes this technology available to a much broader market than ever before. We offer solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional implementations and can get you up in running in a measure of weeks not months or years.